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How long does Noble Drilling (Land Support) Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN SC118867 · Administrative & support services · 12 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Dec 2023

74days
their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period
Well behindvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

Self-reported figure from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

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Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 31 Dec 2023 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
30 Jun 1989
Registered office
PAVILION 2 KINGSHILL PARK VENTURE DRIVE, ABERDEEN, AB32 6FL
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Sept 2026

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 30–45 days. Reported average: 74.

Stated terms30–45d
+44 days
Reported avg74d

At a glance

The key figures

30–45d
their stated terms
28%
invoices paid outside terms
+43d
slower over the window
±10d
variable pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower
Slower than 97% of the 608 large companies reporting in administrative & support services.

The pattern

Getting slower

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 30d
31
43
58
54
58
74
H1 2021H2 2021H1 2022H2 2022H1 2023H2 2023

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 31% 31–60 days 41% 61+ days 28%

The read · computed from their figures

Noble Drilling (Land Support) Limited has filed 12 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 74 days against stated terms of 30–45 days.

The direction is slower: from 31 to 74 days over the window — about 43 days slower.

In the latest period 28% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 28% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Standard payment terms with vendors is set at 30 days

Dispute resolution

Normally these will be with price and/or quantity variances with our purchase orders or insufficient back-up to the vendor invoices. We pass the disputes to our supply chain department to liaise with the vendor to try and resolve the issue(s) and if an edit or update to our purchase order is required, our supply chain department will make the changes to allow our Accounts Payable department to process the invoice(s). If there is no change required to our purchase order then the vendor would have to re-submit their invoice to agree to our purchase order

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 20237428%28%13 Aug 2024
H1 20235828%28%25 Jul 2023
H2 20225419%19%31 Jan 2023
H1 20225828%28%15 Jul 2022
H2 20214314%14%26 Jan 2022
H1 2021316%6%28 Jul 2021
H2 2020282%2%27 Jan 2021
H1 2020398%8%11 Aug 2020
H2 2019324%4%24 Jan 2020
H1 2019428%8%25 Jul 2019
H2 2018303%3%17 Jan 2019
H1 2018280%2%25 Jul 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 74-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 74-day vs a 30-day payment cycle.

≈ £29,000
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 74-day cycle — about £17,300 more than the same account would carry at 30-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act lets a supplier charge statutory interest and fixed compensation on invoices paid past agreed terms. Work out what a late invoice is worth → Whether it applies depends on your contract — check with an adviser.

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 43 days slower over the window (31 → 74 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 74, moving within about ±10 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
Can I see what this means for my invoices?
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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?
UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.
What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?
The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.
How often is this data updated?
Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.
Is this official government data?
The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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